Search Selected Records in
the USGenWeb Archives Project - Mississippi
Search Tips:
- Searches are not case sensitive
- Valid operators are: AND OR ANDNOT
- Right truncation is supported using the asterisk * as
wildcard
- Search for phrases by enclosing search terms in
quotation marks
- Use parentheses to remove ambiguity from search
expressions. Otherwise, operators execute from left to
right.
Examples:
- John AND Ruffin retrieves
documents in which the words John and Ruffin both
appear somewhere in the document
- "John Ruffin"
(with quotes) retrieves occurrences where
the word John appears next to the
word Ruffin
- John Ruffin (without
quotes) finds documents where either
the word John or the word Ruffin
appears
- will OR probate
returns documents containing either
word
- Midway ANDNOT Appling retrieves
documents that contain the word Midway but not
the word Appling
- Richards*
finds all words beginning with
Richards, including Richards, Richardsen, Richardson, etc.
- Ruffin AND (deed* OR
indenture*) Use parentheses to ensure
results. This search expression retrieves documents
containing Ruffin and either deed,
deeds, indenture, or indentures. Without the parentheses,
it will find documents containing Ruffin and deed or
deeds OR documents that contain the
words indenture or indenture whether they contain the
search term Ruffin or not
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